COOK ISLAND TRADE
COMMISSIONER’S REVIEW Press Association WELLINGTON, Thursday. In the course of an interview to-day, Judge Ayson, Resident Commissioner at the Cook Islands, said trade conditions in the Islands were fairly well maintained during the past year in spite of the low price ruling for copra, and the fact that fruit prices in New Zealand were disappointing. Exports for the year ended December 31, 1928, were £133,051, and imports £117,639. Special attention is being given to the packing and grading of fruit for export in order that the Islands can meet the competition of Fiji, Australia and California. Efforts are being made to promote secondary industries in such commodities as ginger, tumeric, spices, chillies, etc. Experiments are being carried out in the preservation of orange juice, and it is hoped that very shortly this will prove of considerable value to producers in that it will provide a means of disposing of the surplus orange crop. Experiments are also being carried out in tobacco growing.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 571, 25 January 1929, Page 12
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165COOK ISLAND TRADE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 571, 25 January 1929, Page 12
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